vanessa98's comments

vanessa98 | 9 years ago | on: Reflecting on Haskell in 2016

Oh man, please don't ever use Joel Reymont as a language reference - his noisy, uninformed, continuous churn through various programming languages was exhausting back in the day. Just be thankful the hack has gone quiet.

vanessa98 | 9 years ago | on: Confessions of a $20K bootcamp graduate

Sounds like you owe the poster more than a beer

vanessa98 | 9 years ago | on: Resignations at Cisco hint at internal power struggle

Also, see the reactions from companies with big datacenters who have had to internally evolve off Big Netgear in a similar fashion to moving off Big Iron years before:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/12/networking-the-last... http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/datacenter-networks...

vanessa98 | 9 years ago | on: Resignations at Cisco hint at internal power struggle

They played with house money and set their own goalposts.

vanessa98 | 9 years ago | on: Resignations at Cisco hint at internal power struggle

A legendary racket from days past! Leave Cisco with technology and engineers, get generously funded by Cisco, get generously bought out by Cisco, inside Cisco enjoy sandbagged targets and guaranteed payouts, lather, rinse, repeat. Self-dealing masterpieces!

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: YC Research

Ditto - would love to hear how he went from Loopt to that kind of wealth!

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: YC Research

He got 40M from selling Loopt? Didn't Loopt raise 40M? How does Sam have 10M lying around?

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: Ode to Sequel

Sequel is the bee's knees

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver

Nice! They should let you swipe left, swipe right the other passengers

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver

So the rides are like blind dates?

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: On how Jet.com chose F#

Can it be both?

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver

Studying sounds like a strong word here. Author's an administrator, not a researcher. And he's likely bought in to the Uber economy; current openings at Oglethorpe are administrative and adjunct:

http://www.oglethorpe.edu/apps/careers/

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: On how Jet.com chose F#

Did you mean "a WTF service"?

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: The Setup – Bjarne Stroustrup

Inventor of C++'s dream setup is simple and stable.

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: A Tiny Bank’s Surreal Trip Through a Fraud Prosecution

Federal prosecutors also cherrypick slam dunk cases

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

Seems like just yesterday!

http://blog.samaltman.com/a-new-team-at-reddit

> I am delighted to announce the new team we have in place. Ellen Pao will be stepping up to be interim CEO. Because of her combination of vision, execution, and leadership, I expect that she’ll do an incredible job.

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: Go 1.5's vendor/ experiment

Go packaging is a black hole of sadness in light of all the experience and research that's gone on in this space.

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: The Evolution of Go

He had me at "It’s unclear if it’s [generics] an essential language feature"

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: Finish your stuff

Why is there so much dysfunction around everything they do?

vanessa98 | 10 years ago | on: Boto3 – AWS SDK for Python

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9648015/pypi-download-cou...